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Thomas Ostermeier's inventive Richard III starring Lars Eidinger made its US debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival this month. Even in German …
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Drunk Shakespeare is an abridged 90-minute whirlwind version of Macbeth full of jokes, drinks, and audience participation. …
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The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York …
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Desdemona Chiang's As You Like It at CalShakes is an inventive modern dress production emphasizing doubles, disguises, and the performance of love. …
The 2016 season at Santa Cruz Shakespeare offers a terrific production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and a thought-provoking gender-swapped Hamlet. …
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Ralph Fiennes' titular bunch-backed toad is a man thoroughly damaged by years of abuse in Rupert Goold's enthralling modern dress production. The production …
[Read more...] about Ralph Fiennes excavates Richard III’s malevolence at the Almeida
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